ACROSS
1 Inaugural ball,
e.g.
5 Calcium source
9 Open, as
toothpaste
14 Very dry
15 Down to
business
16 Former
Cleveland oil
company
acquired by BP
17 San __, Italy
18 “Of course”
19 Match with
bishops
20 Access to 54-
Across
23 Catalina, e.g.
24 Houston-based
scandal subject
25 Wood-shaping
tools
27 Phone button trio
30 Badminton
barrier
31 Short-legged dog
32 Emotionally out
of control
34 “Mad” social in
54-Across
37 Spud
38 Benefit
39 Butte relative
40 Like 2016
41 Antacid choice
42 Deteriorate
43 34-Across
napper in 54-
Across
45 Remove pieces
from?
46 Fencing defense
47 Keep out
48 Mao __-tung
49 Shortening brand
51 Divided country
53 Wild West
weapon
54 Setting for a
novel originally
published
11/11/1865
59 Loafs
61 Some
intersections
62 Slushy treat
63 Approaches
64 Bond girl
Kurylenko
65 Facial area under
a soul patch
66 Prickly shrub
67 Corset stiffener
68 Fish caught in
pots
DOWN
1 Teri of “Tootsie”
2 Neck of the
woods
3 Common perch
4 Acrobat creator
5 Restaurant host
6 Soup server’s
caution
7 Use, as a chaise
8 “As seen on TV”
record co.
9 Pac-12
powerhouse
10 Baseball rarities
11 Critter who kept
disappearing in
54-Across
12 It may be graded
in an auditorium
13 Plays to the
camera
21 Deep-seated
22 Online money
source
26 Alsatian dadaist
27 Took steps
28 “Top Chef”
network
29 Hookah smoker
in 54-Across
31 Bus. brass
33 Highly respected
Buddhists
34 Improvised
booster seat for a
tot, maybe
35 Romanov royals
36 Self-
congratulatory
cheer
38 Active
41 “The Burden of
Proof” author
42 Restaurant visitor
44 Hobbit enemy
45 Venture to
express
47 Barrio food store
49 Keeping in the
loop, briefly
50 Wild West show
51 Lowered
oneself?
52 Visitor to 54-
Across
55 Plains people
56 Overexertion
aftermath
57 Diamond of
music
58 Man caves,
maybe
60 Nottingham-to-
London dir.
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6A — Wednesday, November 11, 2015
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Ristovski readies
to play her sisters
Detroit matchup
personal for
Wolverine senior
guard
By TED JANES
Daily Sports Writer
The
trash
talking
has
already begun in the Ristovski
household.
Three sisters — Madison,
Haleigh and Lola Ristovski —
have been playing basketball
together for as long as they can
remember. Madison, a senior
guard at Michigan, will go
head-to-head with her younger
siblings this weekend when
the Wolverines face off against
Detroit on Sunday.
Haleigh,
a
junior
guard/
forward, and Lola, a freshman
guard, are now together for the
first time since they played high
school at University Liggett in
Sterling Heights. Now that Lola
has moved into the collegiate
ranks, the younger pair has
the chance to team up and go
against their older sister when
the two teams meet on Sunday.
“I’m really excited to play
against
them,”
Madison
Ristovski said. “We’ve been
playing together since we were
little. I’m really looking forward
to the game, and I know a lot of
people from my hometown are
going to be there, which is going
to be really special.”
The middle child, Haleigh,
is likely to start for the Titans,
and while Lola might not be in
the starting five, she managed
to play 15 minutes and nail a
3-pointer in the team’s season
opener against Lawrence Tech,
so it’s likely that at some point,
all three of them will take the
court.
Back in high school, for
Madison’s senior year, all three
started for University Liggett,
and the Ristovski trio came
together for a monster campaign
in Madison’s last go.
Even though they all play
different styles now in college —
Lola being more of a transition
player and Haleigh developing
more
inside
with
a
post
presence — when they linked up
in high school, with Madison at
the point, and Haleigh and Lola
playing the ‘2’ and ‘3’, the guard-
heavy lineup was lights-out all
season.
“That year, we lost two games,
and we played the toughest non-
conference schedule,” Madison
Ristovski said. “We made it to
the state championship.”
University Liggett lost, 61-57,
in the closely contested 2012
Class C championship game,
a shootout in which Madison
went for 42 points. The team
fell to Morley Stanwood, but
Madison, the newly crowned
Michigan Miss Basketball, had
the performance of a lifetime,
supported by the aid of her
younger siblings.
“We lost, but I think me,
Haleigh and Lola had 53 of the
57 points,” Ristovski said.
Four years later, Lola is again
a freshman and Ristovski again a
senior, but in completely different
realms. Michigan and Detroit
have met each of the last two
years, and the Wolverines hold a
2-0 advantage over the Titans.
Sunday afternoon, Madison
will try to bump that number
up to three, proving that she’s
still the alpha in the loaded
basketball family.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
‘M’ defensive line
aims to play mean
Hurst, Wormley
focused on
toughness as home
stretch approaches
By JAKE LOURIM
Managing Sports Editor
To open a chat with reporters
Tuesday
night,
redshirt
sophomore
defensive
tackle
Maurice Hurst credited his
breakout season to his coaches,
defensive
line
coach
Greg
Mattison and student assistant
Will Carr.
Then, Hurst expounded on
his praise of Carr, referencing
his All-American career as a
nose tackle at Michigan in the
1990s:
“He was a bad dude.”
Carr, an All-American in 1996
with 180 tackles, 38 tackles for
loss and 11 sacks in his career,
isn’t the only one in the locker
room who could be described
that way.
“We try to see ourselves
as that,” Hurst said of the
Wolverines’
defensive
line.
“There’s certainly times when
we’re
like
that.”
Michigan’s
defensive
line has been
tenacious
this
season,
accounting for
19.5 sacks and
40.5
tackles
for loss. The
front is a big
reason
that
the Wolverines
rank first in the nation in scoring
defense.
Just as jarring, though, have
been the individual highlights.
On Oct. 31, Hurst crushed
Minnesota
running
back
Shannon Brooks for a loss of
three on 3rd-and-goal from the
two-yard line, forcing a field-
goal try. In the previous game
against Michigan State, redshirt
junior Chris Wormley stormed
the
backfield
and
sacked
Spartans quarterback Connor
Cook on third down, forcing a
punt.
“Especially
when
you’re
winning games and you have
that confidence, that just makes
you play a little harder, a little
faster, a little tougher, a little
more mean,” Wormley said.
“You have that arrogance to
come in and say, ‘You’re not
going to push us around, and
we’re going to win this game no
matter what it takes.’ ”
Wormley leads the team with
10 tackles for loss, and he and
Hurst have both at least doubled
their output in that category
from last year. Hurst, who made
just one such stop in 2014, has
already made 5.5 this season.
“Although he plays nose, he’s
the fastest guy off the ball,”
Wormley said of Hurst. “He’s
very quick. He’s very sneaky,
and he makes plays, which is
what we need on the defensive
line.”
Though
quiet
and
unassuming off the field, Hurst
has
ramped
up
the
intensity
at
various points
this
year,
providing
highlight
plays for the
Michigan
defense
that
carry
over
until the next
time the unit
takes
the
field.
“I definitely think you have to
turn it up on the field,” Wormley
said. “You can be the quietest,
calmest guy walking down the
street, but when it’s Saturday
and you turn it up, you have to
have that mentality, (different)
than you would if you were
watching TV with your mom or
dad.”
Hurst and Wormley could
be critical Saturday if redshirt
junior
Ryan
Glasgow,
who
injured his shoulder in the
first quarter last week against
Rutgers, can’t play. In that case,
presumably, Hurst would make
his first career start.
But the shuffling along the
line won’t be anything new
for Michigan, which also lost
sophomore nose tackle Bryan
Mone to a season-ending injury
in August. Rotation has been
one of the hallmarks of the
defensive line, and it will be a
key Saturday against Indiana’s
up-tempo offense. Hurst noted
that while constant changes
on the offensive line can bring
chemistry issues, the practice is
common on defense.
It helps that the Wolverines
are also feeling better physically
than they were at this time last
year.
Strength
coach
Kevin
Tolbert, whom head coach Jim
Harbaugh brought from the
NFL’s
San
Francisco
49ers,
has focused more on recovery
in weekday workouts, making
sure the players are freshest on
Saturday.
That
ensures
that
Hurst,
Wormley and Co. can wreak
havoc in the opposing backfield
as they have all season.
“For sure, I think we’re
playing a lot more physical,”
Hurst said. “Even if you turn on
the Michigan State game from
last year and you turn it on from
this year, I think we’re playing
a lot more physical up front. I
think that was a big game where
you could see that.
“I definitely think that’s
something we really improved
on.
(We)
kind
of
stopped
ourselves from getting knocked
around, and really trying to be
the hammer, not get pushed
back
and
push
everyone
forward.”
FOOTBALL
“For sure, I
think we’re
playing a lot
more physical.”
Walk-on Hibbitts picked
Michigan over scholarship
By KELLY HALL
Daily Sports Writer
For
most
high
school
basketball players with Division I
aspirations, college decisions are
made long before May of senior
year. Brent Hibbitts, however, had
to wait until he was admitted to
Michigan before making his.
Hibbitts had already received a
handful of scholarship offers from
mid-major schools such as Central
Michigan,
Western
Michigan
and Appalachian State when
Michigan coach John Beilein and
the Wolverines entered the mix
during his senior season.
But playing for Michigan came
with a catch: Hibbitts would have
to be a walk-on and pay his way
through college.
Days after hearing of his
acceptance, the 6-foot-8 forward
decided to become a preferred
walk-on for the Wolverines, and
just a few weeks after that, he
arrived in Ann Arbor for summer
training.
“I had several offers that I was
considering,” Hibbitts said. “But
then Michigan came up, and that
was obviously a different option
because I’d be a walk-on and have
to pay, but it also had its benefits:
the academics, the level of play,
just being a part of Michigan.
“I’m a Michigan guy, so I
guess that’s kind of always been a
dream.”
The role of a walk-on is
less glamorous than that of a
scholarship
athlete,
but
the
benefits that come with playing
against Big Ten talent and earning
a Michigan degree were too hard
to ignore.
“I’m undecided on my major
right now,” Hibbitts said. “But
obviously, it’s Michigan, it has
very high academics. When I do
decide, I know I’ll be getting a
great education no matter what I
major in.”
Hibbitts averaged 17.5 points,
11.3 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per
game as a senior at Hudsonville
High
School,
garnering
an
Associated Press Class A All-State
honorable mention and an offer
from Central Michigan, where his
older brother, Blake, is a two-sport
athlete, was particularly enticing.
Though his brother initially
wanted him to be a Chippewa so
they could play together again, the
elder Hibbitts backed off as time
went by and more offers rolled in.
“As (recruitment) went on, he
was just like, ‘Do what’s best for
you,’ ” Hibbitts said. “I waited
it out and decided that this was
best for me, and he was really
supportive as well, just like
everyone else in my family.”
During
Michigan’s
2014-15
season, the importance of the
walk-on role was apparent. After
then-junior guard Caris LeVert
and
then-sophomore
guard
Derrick Walton were sidelined
with
season-ending
injuries,
then-sophomore walk-ons Sean
Lonergan and Andrew Dakich
appeared in 17 and 13 games,
respectively, playing over 120
combined minutes. They were
more than just garbage-time
players.
Though the Wolverines are
healthy and experienced for
the time being, Hibbitts knows
from history that if he puts in
the work, he’ll get meaningful
minutes down the road. As
one of just two freshmen on a
seasoned squad, it’s expected
that Hibbitts will redshirt this
season.
The other freshman — German
forward Moritz Wagner — is
Hibbitts’ roommate.
“He’s a really goofy dude,”
Hibbitts said of Wagner. “It’s
been good. (The team) really
accepted us with everything, on
the court, off the court. Moe is my
roommate, so we got to know each
other really well, and then we got
to know the team together. It’s
been a good relationship.”
For now, Hibbitts and Wagner
are just learning the ropes in
practice, side by side with future
NBA talent, while simultaneously
adjusting to college life.
“I was a little bit overwhelmed
when I first started playing with
(LeVert),” Hibbits said. “I was
just like ‘Wow, he’s a really good
player.’ A lot of other guys are like
that too. Now I’m kind of used to
it, but I’m still impressed by how
good of a player he is. He works
really, really hard too, so it’s no
surprise that he’s that good.”
After giving up full rides
to other schools just for the
opportunity to contribute to the
Wolverines, Hibbitts plans on
working hard, too.
JAMES COLLER/Daily
Brent Hibbitts is expected to redshirt in 2015-16.